NCDF helps businesses and project sponsors clarify performance constraints, determine capital and partnership readiness and engage the appropriate commercial, securities, investment-management or technology mandate.
Readiness-led | Separate specialist mandates | No guarantee of funding
Pathway | Purpose | Delivered by |
Diagnose Performance and Define Growth | Business model, market, customer, margin, cash conversion, capabilities and growth plan. | NCDF Commercial Services |
Prepare for Capital or Partnership | Financial information, sources and uses, investment case, governance, management and data room. | NCDF Commercial Services |
Raise Capital or Execute a Transaction | Eligible equity, debt, private placement, acquisition, project finance, refinancing or hybrid structures. | NCDF Securities |
Strengthen Treasury and Liquidity | Cash segmentation, liquidity, counterparty, currency, governance and reporting. | NCDF Investment Management |
Build or Modernise Technology | Digital products, enterprise systems, data, AI, cloud, integration, cybersecurity and managed operations. | NCDF Technology Infrastructure & Services |
Establish Implementation Accountability | Workstreams, responsibilities, milestones, budgets, risks, escalation and executive reporting. | NCDF Commercial Services |
Stage | Likely starting point |
1. Commercially unclear | Start with a business diagnostic. |
2. Objective defined, evidence incomplete | Start with commercial or capital-readiness preparation. |
3. Issuer and requirement defined | Consider transaction scoping or issuer readiness. |
4. Ready for execution or post-approval delivery | Consider a separate securities, technology or implementation mandate. |
Each company completes separate acceptance and documentation. Fees, invoices, client money, transaction money, regulatory decisions and professional liabilities remain with the responsible company. A Group relationship lead may coordinate the programme without combining mandates.
Tell us what the business is trying to achieve, what evidence exists and what decision must be made next.